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Star Trails, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.

I wanted to properly expose an image that showed long star trails without the moon. I set my timer to delay the exposure, which started at about 2:30AM and went on for 6,554 seconds (or close to 1 hour and 50 minutes) at f/5.6 and ISO 100. Besides the star trails, you can see fog on the ocean and the early light of pre-dawn.

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2 Responses to “Star Trails”

  1. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Fog and Stars Says:
    November 6th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

    [...] 15 minutes after sunset. Makes it kind of tough on a night photographer. Related image: Star Trails. [24mm in 35mm terms, 180 seconds at f/9 and ISO 100, tripod mounted.] Note to readers: [...]

  2. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Harold Davis Night Photography Workshop Says:
    December 16th, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    [...] 51/” title=”Star Trails by Harold Davis, on Flickr”> View this image larger. Read the back story featuring this image. Course Description Night photography has always been an area for cre [...]

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